Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Upstairs… or downstairs?

I saw this ugly metal fire-escape bolted onto the side of what might have been an elegant nineteenth century building except for the metal boxes bolted to the side which I guess are something to do with air conditioning or central heating or ducts for something or another… Oh and there are grills over the windows […]

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Dark days, darker nights…

It’s that time of year when things change, the seasons change, autumn is dying away into winter, and the year is heading towards its end. With all the dark all around us, it becomes the dark season; all sorts of festivities take place across the country, celebrations and ritual to ward off evil and bring the […]

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Wait…

When I was at secondary school we had a headmistress who was pretty universally disliked – there are exceptions, some people thought she was alright, but too many of us had reasons to really not like her, and in many case heartily despise her. When sent or summoned to see her, we had to wait for […]

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